Aieeeee! There's a Past Imperfect story in prog 1409, and it's the inevitiable Jack the Ripper one.
There ought to be a law against this kind of thing.
It's not bad, though, but it strongly reminds me of something else. An award-winning play by a certain UK comics writer...
But the DPS in part two of Total War does go some way to balance things up.
Thank goodness Arthur isn't here- he'd only give us a link to that fifth rate ripper rubbish...
Aieee!
Past imperfect!
I really liked it:) Alice could've been made to be a bit more slutty tho.
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I'm guilty of writing this Past Imperfect for Tharg earlier this year.
I haven't seen the finished piece as yet but am looking forward to what Cam Smith has come up with.
Glad that some of you seem to have liked it, but I must confess my ignorance to the play Gordon is hinting at.
As far as direct influences on the strip go, they were the original Alice books and my memories of Dennis Potter's movie based on Lewis Carroll's life... and wading through many, many books on the Ripper myth.
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It's a trick.
No comic book author has ever written a play. Not one that's actually been performed, anyway...
"Alice could've been made to be a bit more slutty tho. "
With a thong, perchance?
I really liked the PI..you can never get enough of old saucy jack and his funny little games I say..I'm giving this one a big fat 8/10..
'No comic book author has ever written a play. Not one that's actually been performed, anyway...'
I'm pretty sure that Grant Morrison has had a couple of his plays performed.
In his dreams!
Perhaps people are confusing this play with "Saucy Jack", Spinal Tap's musical based on the life of Jack the Ripper?
"Saucy Jack, you're a naughty one,
Saucy Jack, you're a haughty one..." etc
I saw a play based on 3 of Gaiman's short stories at the Fringe last year...
No Saucy Jack, then? A missed opportunity! Was the Gaiman play any good?
Aiiiieeeee!!! Saucy Jack lives!
Okay, what about this. Jack the Ripper, right? But he's not just a person, oh no, he's a vampire!
Yeah?
Anyone?
Hello?
Looks like Grennie's professional jealousy is showing again.
s'bin done. And Kim Newman did it backwards.
(Off to plot how to make Timson draw something featuring Sweeney Todd and/or Dracula)
No ones done Elvis yet though... that's quite disapointing.
Link: Fifth rate Elvis rubbish
What about Elvis being sent back through time to prevent the assasination of JFK, only to wind up in victorian london, going insane under the influence of... oh, lets say Sherlock Holmes... commiting the ripper murders so Holmes can go out on one last case.
And then the world blows up.
...not bad, not bad. But it lacks a certain zing. A-ha! So - Elvis arrives in 1888 on International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
I'll be 'avin yer liver for me dinner, dearie. Arr, thanyouverrmuch me bucko.
Needs Mayan space astronauts.